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Ranking a blogger or wordpress website

by vryannn
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Hi everyone,

Is it okay to rank for a domain name like example.wordpress.com instead of "example.com"

And what if it's for a keyword that's easy to rank for.
#blogger #ranking #website #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author jakecoop79
    Sure it's ok, but it's better to rank a site you own and have total control over, rather than one that wordpress or blogger can delete anytime they feel like it.
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  • Profile picture of the author dmtaylor247
    Blogspot domains are good for seo because they have an unbelivable amount of domain authority. Google are looking at this more and more instead of pagerank authority. The only problem is, it's not brandable and hard to transfer your site if you want to but it's great if you're throwing up a few adsense websites. You can even go after tough keywords with these domains;

    Google

    Check the traffic of the top site, a blogspot domain, over 2,000,000 unique vistors every month, must be close to 4.5 million pageviews. It's hardly got any links but loads of domain authority due to the huge amount of links to blogspot.com
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    • Profile picture of the author vryannn
      Originally Posted by jakecoop79 View Post

      Sure it's ok, but it's better to rank a site you own and have total control over, rather than one that wordpress or blogger can delete anytime they feel like it.
      That's true but I just want to make an adsense website out of it.



      Originally Posted by dmtaylor247 View Post

      Blogspot domains are good for seo because they have an unbelivable amount of domain authority. Google are looking at this more and more instead of pagerank authority. The only problem is, it's not brandable and hard to transfer your site if you want to but it's great if you're throwing up a few adsense websites. You can even go after tough keywords with these domains;

      Google

      Check the traffic of the top site, a blogspot domain, over 2,000,000 unique vistors every month, must be close to 4.5 million pageviews. It's hardly got any links but loads of domain authority due to the huge amount of links to blogspot.com

      That's a great example, thank you for sharing.

      What do you mean "a huge amount of links to blogspot.com" ? Is he building backlinks to other blogspot website or it's because blogspot is an authority domain so they rank easily.

      According to backlinkwatch.com, they have about 7,800 backlinks
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      • Profile picture of the author dmtaylor247
        Originally Posted by vryannn View Post

        That's a great example, thank you for sharing.

        What do you mean "a huge amount of links to blogspot.com" ? Is he building backlinks to other blogspot website or it's because blogspot is an authority domain so they rank easily.

        According to backlinkwatch.com, they have about 7,800 backlinks
        Blogspot is in the top 10 visited domains in the world.

        The cheap tools won't give you accurate results. Blogger has 18,000,000 direct links and over 680,000,000 links to other blogspot domains, this is what gives the domain it's domain authority.

        I would suggest trying it, but you will be hard pushed to find an exact match name on Blogger, now... but with high quality content, a few high quality relevant links it should be easier to rank.

        There are people saying why are Google properties outranking our sites?, but this is why, there is no manual action involved, it's just because they are leaning towards domain authority. There are some also such as Rand at Seomoz who think it's a bad idea using a Blogspot, but he couldn't be further from the truth.
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  • Profile picture of the author Buyseech
    Why would this be any different than the articlebase model. Copy paste and w00w a link, which can be deleted in a second. In most cases people just delete it and voila.

    If they made it (but they cant) so that you couldnt erase the link, now that would be something worth digging into.

    Just my thoughts..

    Sincerely, Buyseech
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  • Profile picture of the author gianni4284
    Creating your Blogspot blog correctly could be the difference between ranking highly in the search engines and having to struggle to get any traffic at all. When your blog ranks highly in the search engines, it can receive large amounts of traffic without the author having to pay for advertising. By paying attention to a few factors when setting up your blog, it can begin to rank higher and get more traffic.

    - Focus on the Title
    - Get Inbound Links
    - Create Unique Content
    - Use Meta Descriptions
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  • Profile picture of the author System Wide Solutions
    Blogspot blogs ranks very faster than others.
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    • Profile picture of the author delords
      Blogger Blogs does better when it comes with Rankings on Google when done properly well. Also i have seen many people always dishing out Making use of a Blogger Blog with the mindset that your blog can just get dropped anytime.

      This assertion isn't all true, If You do what's right and follow simple terms 'which every other sites online also provides such terms which if you violate you also face the penalty' you will sure have your blog running for as long as you want it to.

      Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author mrsvirtualassistant
        You can get high rankings for a Blogger or WordPress as long as you follow the same rules that apply for to traditional websites. Write unique content frequently, build relevant links, and promote your posts on social media and social bookmarking sites. If your site stands out of the crowd and provides valuable information, it will rank high in search engines and get quality traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author diyakapoor
    Never go for a free domain at wordpress. that can be banned or blocked by wordpress any time. But when you have your own domain name you have complete freedom to work on it. To introduce easy and seo friendly features of wordpress in your website you can create wordpress based website by installing it in your web server.
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  • Profile picture of the author Devel
    Today Blogger has custom robots.txt, custom 404 error, redirection, meta tags like descriptions etc. and that is a big improvements.
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  • Profile picture of the author seotrafficsearch
    Originally Posted by vryannn View Post

    Hi everyone,

    Is it okay to rank for a domain name like example.wordpress.com instead of "example.com"

    And what if it's for a keyword that's easy to rank for.
    Always go for blogspot instead of wordpress. I never saw any wordpress.com coming up in search results. And yes its always easy to rank a keyword if you have example.com. If you can't afford to have one, go with blogger.
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